

An Ideal Husband
He just doesn't know it yet.
Sir Robert Chiltern is a successful government minister, well-off and with a loving wife. All this is threatened when Mrs Cheveley appears in London with damning evidence of a past misdeed. Sir Robert turns for help to his friend Lord Goring, an apparently idle philanderer and the despair of his father. Goring knows the lady of old, and, for him, takes the whole thing pretty seriously.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $14M
- Box office
- $18.5M
- Language
- English
- blackmail
- based on play or musical
- securities, stocks and bonds
- british politics
- house of commons
- commerce without conscience
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France, United Kingdom, United States of America
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United StatesUS
- TheatricalPG-1315 Apr 1999
United KingdomGB
- TheatricalPG16 Apr 1999
GermanyDE
- Theatrical1223 Dec 1999
PolandPL
- Theatrical9 Aug 2001
PortugalPT
- TheatricalM/1211 Jun 1999
SpainES
- Theatrical1614 Jan 1999
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An Ideal Husband was released on 14 January 1999.
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2/15/2024
"Sir Robert Chiltern" (Jeremy Northam) is a British cabinet minister with a secret! He is determined that it remain exactly that - from his wife (Cate Blanchett) and from his political masters. Perhaps not too shrewdly, he turns to his rather underwhelming pal "Lord Goring" (Rupert Everett) whom he knows is well acquainted with his new found nemesis "Mrs. Cheveley" (Julianne Moore). With a parliamentary debate fast l…
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